Ann Widdecombe’s going to stand for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party – only 11 responses you need
Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe is returning to frontline politics – well, frontlineish – as a candidate for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.
In a slightly unexpected turn of events, Widdecombe said she would still vote Conservative in the upcoming local elections but would stand for the Brexit party in the European elections to “fire a very loud warning shot across the bows” of the established parties.
Here’s what Nigel Farage said.
I welcome Ann Widdecombe as our lead candidate in the South West, the Brexit Party is a stronger alliance as a result. This is great news.
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) April 24, 2019
And – much more interesting – here’s our pick of what everyone else had to say.
1.
Ann Widdecombe is not a cuddly dancing grandma, she's a vicious far right horrorbag who insisted pregnant prisoners give birth in chains.
(Also she fought against unionisation all her life until she had to do manual work for a week on a reality TV show, then she formed a union.)— Helen the Zen (@helenmallam) April 24, 2019
2.
Ann Widdecombe embodies the Brexit Party perfectly:
* Homophobic
* Anti-abortion
* Supports death penalty
* Against women's rights/equality
* Wants to shackle pregnant prisoners
* Anti-sex education
* Climate change denier
* Racist
* Writes for the Express#WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/INtBnMg12s— SpaceAngel #StopBrexit & #GTTO (@spaceangel1964) April 24, 2019
3.
Ann Widdecombe's standing for the Brexit Party now. It's like when Channel 5 reveal who's in their latest reality show. Next will be Timmy Mallet, Jimmy Greaves and the woman who put a cat in a wheelie-bin.
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) April 24, 2019
4.
https://twitter.com/UB5simon/status/1120933487220072448
5.
Ann Widdecombe defects to Brexit party. That's the youth vote sewn up then.https://t.co/5fAhf0M1Yq
— Otto English (@Otto_English) April 24, 2019
6.
Nigel Farage: "I could take the Brexit party from good polling figures to dead in a year."
Ann Widdecombe: "Hold my sherry!" https://t.co/WBvRNF9Q2Z
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) April 24, 2019
7.
Nigel Farage, George Galloway, Ann Widdecombe: truly the Brexit Party are spoiling us
— Jonathan Freedland (@Freedland) April 24, 2019
8.
Ann Widdecombe, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Iain Duncan Smith, Theresa May, they all like to spout off about their Christian beliefs, values, morals, all sounds plausible, until you scratch the surface and see the callous reality of their consciences, they come from Satan himself #GTTO
— Loz Argyle (@ArgyleLoz) April 24, 2019
9.
"I don't think I can make up my mind on this until I've heard what Ann Widdecombe says on the matter"
Said nobody ever
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) April 24, 2019
10.
Ann Widdecombe is not the caring, witty, kindhearted grandma she likes us to believe, she's one of the nastiest, uncaring, cruel, vindictive tory ministers I've ever known, she is as hard right as you can get, actually she's a good fit for the extreme #BrexitParty
— Loz Argyle (@ArgyleLoz) April 24, 2019
11.
"I'm unsure what to do.."
"What does Ann Widdecombe think..?"
"..ok i will do the diametric opposite, thanks for the advice!"— Shaun Keaveny (@shaunwkeaveny) April 24, 2019
To conclude …
Many moons ago (when hardly anyone listened to my show) we instituted the 'Law of Widdecombe': If you're ever in doubt about which side to pick, just watch Widdecombe and do the opposite.
Time for a resurrection.— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) April 24, 2019
Oh, and the upshot of it all is this …
the lucky voters of the South West now have the choice between Andrew Adonis, Sargon of Akkad, Rachel Johnson, the Green one who tried to shut down Brussels airport, and Ann Widdecombe. https://t.co/mZmwVaultL
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) April 24, 2019
Thoughts and prayers.